ArticleObesity surgery2021
The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Metabolic Syndrome: A Three-center Experience in Saudi Arabia.
Article in Obesity surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Bariatric Surgery and Remission of Metabolic Syndrome: A Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials and Prospective Studies.Obesity surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Global Trends in Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
- Long-Term Metabolic Remission and Predictive Factors After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in an Asian Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Study on the correlation between body mass change and eating behavior psychology in patients after sleeve gastrectomy.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- A Review Article: The Relationship Between Obesity and Colorectal Cancer.Current diabetes reports · 2024Review
- The Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Body Mass Index (BMI) and Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) Levels.Cureus · 2024Article
- Sex-Specific Changes in Body Composition Following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Are Associated with the Remission of Metabolic Syndrome.Obesity surgery · 2023Article
- Article
- Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Metabolic Syndrome, Framingham Risk Scores and Thyroid Function during One-Year Follow-Up: A Saudi Retrospective Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Association between gamma glutamyl transpeptidase to HDL-Cholesterol (GGT/HDL-C) ratio and metabolic syndrome resolution after sleeve gastrectomy.Diabetes & vascular disease researchArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThe prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) increases in parallel with the increasing incidence of obesity. Hence, bariatric surgery is potentially curative in obese patients with MetS. We aim to measure the effect of bariatric surgery as well as the potential factors leading to MetS resolution in the Saudi population.
methodsA retrospective review of three tertiary care centers in Saudi Arabia was done. We identified 386 patients who have MetS and underwent bariatric surgery during the period between January 2016 and December 2018. After exclusion of patients with insufficient follow-up, data from 275 patients was analyzed. MetS diagnosis, persistence, and resolution were determined using the International Diabetes Federation consensus worldwide definition.
resultsMetS resolution was achieved in 78%, 79%, 73%, and 82% at 1, 2, 3, and 4 years after bariatric surgery, respectively. Accumulatively, 80% achieved MetS resolution with an average follow-up period of two and a half years. Patients who experienced resolution had younger age, lower BMI, lower systolic blood pressure, lower triglycerides, lower fasting plasma glucose, and lower HbA1c preoperatively in addition to a higher percentage of excess weight loss after bariatric surgery when compared to those who had persistence of MetS.
conclusionMore than three fourths of patients with MetS achieved resolution after bariatric surgery. Certain patient characteristics, such as young age and higher excess weight loss postoperatively, were associated with a higher chance of MetS resolution.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.